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Document Details : Title: A Demotic Lease of Temple Land Reused in the Katochoi Archive (Louvre N 2328A) Author(s): CLARYSSE, W. , VANDORPE, K. Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 36 Date: 2006 Pages: 1-11 DOI: 10.2143/AS.36.0.2017825 Abstract : The katochoi of the Memphite Serapeum often reused the empty spaces of demotic contracts for writing private documents such as accounts, drafts of petitions and even literary texts. One such text is a list of Macedonian months written in the margin of an old demotic lease of temple land, dated to 215/214 BC. Three persons sublet to two others a substantial area of land for which the rent has to be paid to the temple of the god Horus of Buto. At least two of the persons involved have Greek names and a third is a «Greek born in Egypt». One of the neighbouring plots belonged to «the troop of the Greeks in Egypt». These Greeks, like the katochoi half a century later, were clearly at home in two worlds. |
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